Is an interest in video game development /g/ worthy, or does it place you in the same tier as /v/ babbies?
Personally, I think it's a legitimate pursuit. This is anecdotal, but I find it to be the least boring facet of computer science by far. However, it's hard for me to internally destigmatize the association video games and NEET leech manchildren.
I find *playing* video games to be an unproductive waste of time by and large, and I won't hesitate to show the door to any /v/irgins who bring their autistic gaymen benchmarks to this board.
>>60412684
You sound really insecure.
>asking /g/ to make your important life decisions
>>60412684
>posts /v/ meme
>tfw you'll never strike gold with some autism-friendly piece of shit game like minecraft and never ever need to work ever again
FUCK someone kill notch I can't live with this amount of butthurt
>>60412698
>>60412740
I was just giving my take on it. So what if I don't know what to do with my life. This topic should still be discussed.
>>60412876
Well you can at least not make the mistake of writing the entire thing in a failed abortion like Java.
>>60412684
So what are you getting at? You want to become one of those virulent bile spewing """developers""" that both hates games and people who play them?
>>60412941
>DIE! DIE!DIE!
>>60412684
Yes and obviously in your case yes.
>>60412941
Maybe. I don't think I'd be that much of a cunt (publicly anyway). I just hate how much of my time games took from me. I don't hate people who play games as much as I just don't understand them, so I find it to be a safe assumption that most of them are either children/teenagers or people with no drive to be productive. But even if I didn't care about participating in society, I would still feel like I'm not gaining anything from playing games.
>>60413165
My parents always put it in my head that I was smarter than others and filled me with pressure to impress, whenever I did anything that was less than perfect or failed it was always because I was being lazy or just didn't want to succeed
My fear of failure has paralyzed me in life, all my peers have left me behind in successful careers while I dropped out of college because unlike regular grade school I was actually working on things I didn't already know and my results were never good enough. I can't even make myself apply for jobs because the prospect of being turned down terrifies me, and the escape of video games where I can retry until I succeed, or be better than others fills the hole in my life.
I don't even know how to program, I'm completely useless.
>>60413165
>I just hate how much of my time games took from me.
>I don't hate people who play games as much as I just don't understand them
What? This doesn't make sense. You obviously played a lot of videogames, so how can you possibly not understand people who play videogames?
>>60413958
Because I don't really know what I was thinking. I don't know what I thought games were doing for me. It even got to a point where I was playing games out of obligation. I completed almost every single Sonic the Hedgehog game for some reason. Games were just 'what I did'. I was just a kid with no sense of responsibility who didn't know how to think forward. Then when I was 16, I began to feel like I was unable to enjoy games all of a sudden. It drove me insane. I felt like there was something wrong with me. I spent a bunch of time trying to figure out how to get my enthusiasm for games back, but I eventually realized that games were the problem in the first place. It wasn't a problem that games weren't entertaining me anymore, it was a blessing that I finally came around to having some baseline sense of being productive.